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Yeah, that's how I see it. Although, I think the expected daily damage output (assuming 4 combat encounters per day) for post-PH3 characters is still roughly the same as pre-PH3 characters, so in that sense everything is still pretty unified. Every class in a certain role ends up at the same...

In a hypothetical 5e or a massively revised 4e, I could see all clerics as being Con based. As alluded to by Zaphling, the cleric's fervor and zeal could make them more vigorous and pugnacious - a reinterpretation of Con to be focused more on energy and the propensity for action would work well...

I like the names "hobbit" and "kender," and I can conceive of an alternate reality where they weren't so weighed down by their baggage. But those words are laden with so much connotations that they'll never really sound right if attempts were made to take them seriously. So as much as I dislike...

Yeah, I think I would have fallen in to this category. I really like Essentials and have come to dislike AEDU, but I'm not sure I would have gotten to this point without 2ish years of AEDU first.

Gah, missed the message about how your player went with a Druid of Winter. :) I know you're going with your ideas on a Winter druid, but I thought I'd take the opportunity to mention a few of my ideas. For animal, I think raven is a good idea for both real-world and setting reasons. Winter is...

I hope WotC comes around to making autumn and winter druids soon. But in the meantime, here are some quick thoughts for autumn druids. To me, autumn is a transitional period, moving from a season of life to a season of death. Perhaps because of the Halloween tradition, it also strikes me as a...

I've written up a few stances for a leader build of fighter that resembles a warlord. Indeed, many of the stances are based on warlord at-wills. I can post them in 4e House Rules if you (or anyone else) is interested. I decided to go with an inspiring word analogue that granted temporary...

I'd love to use the Hand and Eye of Vecna, but I feel they are somewhat limited by being Paragon artifacts. I wish there was a way to upgrade them to Epic, or to downgrade to Heroic. That way, they could be usable across more tiers. In addition, a big challenge I have with the Hand and Eye is...

I got the same impression. I didn't like the faith and heresy article quite as much, but it did have some good parts. The main thing I didn't like was the sidebar saying that DMs shouldn't take away divine class powers because it would be unfair. I agree that it would be unfair and that is the...

I really like the idea of the encounter status check step. I've often wanted the ability to transition from a combat encounter to a chase, but when play is focused on the battlemat I've found that hard to do. I think this is a good way to get past that. Perhaps explicitly adding an extra step...

Are you certain? One of the blogs I follow has a battlemind PC - from the blog's week 1 Encounters report: I confess that I don't know the character creation rules for this season, and I know DMs have a lot of leeway in what happens in their Encounters game. However, I've beeing following the...

As far as I recall, the colors have always been that way. I never intrepreted it as suggestive of tiered pricing, but I don't think it's unreasonable that they had plans on doing that earlier on (or that they still might).

I'd like it to be a fluffy coffee table book like The Book of Nod for Vampire: the Masquerade or Days of Fire for Demon: the Fallen that reveals a lot of evil secrets about the D&D world. I guess a combined fluff book with a does of crunch like the Dictionary of Mu for Sorcerer would be okay, too.

Everyone has their own internal criteria for deciding when an ability is "too gamey" or "just right," and for some people that criteria might be more stringent than others. For my part, I usually explain "attack-to-heal" powers in one of two ways. First, the attack results in an inspiring burst...

While I don't find their default racial stories to be particularly interesting, I really like the wilden and shardminds and feel they are valuable additions to my game. I especially like shardminds because they add a sci-fi flair to my games that I think is cool.

I dislike runepriests for purely subjective reasons. I simply believe runepriests should be cleric builds. If runepriests were presented as build of cleric like the warpriest, a lot of my misgivings would vanish.

I subscribe because I like having Compendium access and I like seeing the latest D&D content as soon as it's released. The rest (CB, AT, etc.) is pretty much gravy for me.

I think the main reason they did it is to make the point costs for each ability a little bit more equal. I don't mind 8 attributes. The inclusion of a Fighting ability is most interesting, as I hadn't considered that before. I'd prefer another name for it, like Vigor or Pugnacity (is there a...

That was the same issue I had as well. A very good article, but I couldn't help getting tweaked just a wee bit by the creature-level DCs.

WotC's standing in my eyes has not diminished, and I've lost no respect for them. While I've been thinking about using another, non-4e game as my game of choice, this is simply because 4e no longer really scratches the itch for me. I think it's simple fatigue, as I've been playing it pretty much...